Will Cooke

Will Cooke, born in Sydney, Australia 1989, is a Sydney based artist who adopts abstraction to understand nostalgia and its relationship to sensory-based experience. He competed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) in 2011.

Cooke explores his own personal mythologies and memories, and through minimal abstraction attempts to make these internal thoughts and experiences, external. He makes paintings as a form of self inflicted visual therapy, transforming his personal experiences into a physical object, each geometric form representing a different facet of memory. The results are illusion based abstract paintings that deal with nostalgia, remembrance and intimacy.